THE MISTY ROAD TO A PERFORMANCE

Holstebro, 15 February - 11 May 2012

A 3 month process of performance montage led by
Pierangelo Pompa (director in residence at Odin
Teatret)

Pierangelo Pompa's work, which is open to a limited number of
participants, will focus on the process leading up to a
performance, inspired by the novel Night's Lies, by
Gesualdo Bufalino. This process involves the dynamics of teaching
and self-teaching as well as the dynamics of the individual and
collective artistic relationships in group work - in a
collective mind. The daily programme will include the
development of a personal training and a time devoted to the
creative work. The training, coordinated by the director, will
depart from the previous experiences undergone by the participants.
It will comprise physical and vocal exercises and the practice of
the founding principles of stage presence: physical
actions, as the smallest units of scenic behaviour, and
relationships to other actors, music, space,
objects and words. Training will show how a physical action can
find its organic extension in a vocal action. Two fundamental
principles of the actor's craft will be explored: the
segmentation of actions and the
synchronisation of physical impulses with vocal
impulses. These are the premises for a dialogue through actions,
and for a fertile collaboration between actor and director.

The creative process will be rooted in the unfolding of an
independent actor's dramaturgy, and in the narrative and poetic
potentialities of the actor's actions to be inserted in the
performance's structure. The actor's dramaturgy will be developed
during the training through the invention, variation and
interpretation of physical and vocal sequences (scores). The
various ways of a structured improvisation will be explored with
the aim of creating individual materials which will be elaborated
by the director with reference to the theme of the performance. The
result will be presented as a work in progress at
Odin Teatret and in other places in Holstebro.

The three month periodincludes at
least eight hours of daily activity, five days a week, in
the different fields described above, as well as the practical
aspects of creative work such as the realisation of costumes and
props. The programme includes meetings with various actors from
Odin Teatret and its director Eugenio Barba; performances and work
demonstrations by Odin Teatret and other guest performances;
historical and theoretical lectures by the staff of OTA (Odin
Teatret Archives) with films and videos from the archives. During
the period when Odin Teatret will perform its latest production,
The Chronic Life, a particular study will be made on the
theme of the actor's and director's dramaturgy thanks to the
possibility of attending the performance several times.

The working language is English. The director
can also communicate on a personal level in Italian, French and
Spanish.

PIERANGELO POMPA, born in Rome, (Italy) in
1979, is a director. After starting out as an amateur actor, he
studied directing in different theatres, among others Théâtre du
Soleil. Since 2006, he has worked at Odin Teatret as Eugenio
Barba's assistant in various productions and projects in Denmark,
Italy and Taiwan. In 2008 he founded in Italy the Altamira
Laboratory, with performances and teaching activity, also at the
Centre of University Theatre at the University of Ferrara. Since
2008 he has directed: I Look at the Sea (Antas Teatro),
Don Giovanni - A Scherzo for Servant and Master (Altamira
Laboratory) and Twelve Good Words (Altamira
Laboratory-Antas Teatro). He completed his university studies in
theatre history and Chinese language and literature. He specialised
in Chinese classic theatre and has made several stays in China and
Taiwan, studying in particular the writings of Mei Lanfang. Since
2009, he has published essays and reports in the Italian magazine
"Teatro e Storia".

FEE: the teaching process in residence
is free, the only condition being an uninterrupted
presence at all activities. Participants will be requested to help
with practical tasks inside the theatre, including daily
cleaning.

ACCOMODATION including spartan lodging in the
Odin guesthouse, free access to services (kitchen, laundry and
internet), use of working venues and stage equipment: DKK
3,000 (about 400 Euro) a month, making a total of DKK 9.000 (about
1,200 Euro) for the whole period to be paid by 15 January
2012.

A meeting for mutual knowledge and selection will be
held at Odin Teatret from 24 to 27 November 2011. It will be
possible to lodge at the theatre's guesthouse at the cost of 50
Euros for the four days. Participation in this meeting is not
obligatory, but priority will be given to those who have taken part
in it.

Applications must reach Odin Teatret by 15 November
2011. These must be addressed to odin@odinteatret.dk and
marked MISTY ROAD.